General Knowledge Questions( Previous Year Questions)

General Knowledge Questions( Previous Year Questions)

Important Questions for SSC & Punjab Exams.

1. With which does the power to extend or restrict the jurisdiction of the High Court rest?
With the Parliament

2. ‘Gobar gas’ contains mainly which gas?
Methane

3. Which is the biggest Public Sector undertaking in the country?
Railways

4. Which rocks is transformed into marble?
Limestone

5. Which ‘Englishmen was fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa?
Polak

6. By which number the quality of gasoline’ sample is determined?
By its octane number

7. Due to bite of mad dog the disease hydrophobia is caused by which virus?
Rabies virus

8. Who appoints the Chief Election Commissioner of India?
President

9. What is the principal reason for the formation of metamorphic rocks?
Extreme heat and pressure

10. Who said “I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”?
Mahatma Gandhi

11. A temperature at which both the Fahrenheit and the centigrade scales have the same value?
-40°

12. With which is the ‘Tennis court oath’ associated?
French Revolution

13. Which is the tax that takes away a higher proportion of one’s income as the income rises?
Progressive tax

14. Where is the Sargasso sea located?
North Atlantic Ocean

15. Who com merited that Cripps Mission was a postdated cheque on a crashing bank?
Mahatma Gandhi

16. Medicine for epilepsy is obtain from which lichen?
Parmelia

17. Up to howmuch age can the Members of the Union Public Service Commission function?
65 years

18. Which type of glass is used for making glass reinforced plastic?
Quartz glass

19. Which is the greatest known ocean depth (which lies in the Pacific Ocean)?
11,033 m

20. At which one place did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India?
Champaran

21. With which country is “Orange’ Revolution” associated?
Ukraine

22. With which field was Pandit Bhimsen Joshi associated?
Music’s

23. What percentage of water is lost during transpiration?
99%

24. Which is the most populous city in the world?
Tokyo

25. By which ruler was the practice of military governorship first introduced in India?
Greeks

26. Which country has the briefest Constitution in the world?
USA

27.When temperature is gradually decreased, what is the specific heat of substance?
Decreased

28. What is the mean of Invisible Export?
Export Services

29.Which is the country with the highest density of population in Europe?
Netherlands

30. Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor?
Jahangir

31. Who was the first person to cross the Alps with army?
Hannibal

32. What is the loss of water in the form of water drops called?
Guttation

33. Who was made the Home Minister when Jawaharlal Nehru formed the Interim Government in 1946?
Sardar Patel

34. Which foreign country is closest to Andaman Islands?
Myanmar

35. Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India?
Aurangzeb

36.Which metal is non toxic in nature?
Gold

37.Which is the latest addition to the list of UNESCO’s world heritage sites in India?
Red Fort

38.Which committee was assigned to recommend reforms in the insurance sector?
Malhotra Committee

39. Which State shares boundaries with the maximum number of other States of India?
Assam

40. The first railway line in India was opened in which year?
1853

41. What is Study of growth and development of embryo?
Embryology

42. What is the minimum permissible age for employment in any factory or mine?
44 years

43. Angular separation between two colours of the spectrum depends upon which thing?
Angle of deviation

44. Which mountain range stretches from Gujarat in west to Delhi in the north?
Aravallis

45. In which nomad man started settling?
Neolithic Age

46.Where is the headquarter of International atomic Energy Agency is located?
Vienna

47.The book ‘Diplomatic Encounter’ has been written by which author?
Arundhati Roy

48.What is the Study of pulse and arterial blood pressure called?
Sphygmology

49.The Himalayas are formed of parallel fold ranges of which the oldest range?
The Great Himalayan Range

50. Rigveda is divided into 10 books. Which books are the oldest?
Second and seventh

51. Who is competent to prescribe conditions as for acquiring Indian citizenship?
Parliament

52. Which is the element that has the highest first ionization potential?
Nitrogen

53. During which Plan did prices show a decline?
First

54. Which state has the largest number of salt lakes in India?
Rajasthan

55. Who was the last of the 24th Jain Tirthankaras?
Mahavira

56. Who is the author of the book ‘The Rights of Man’?
Thomas Paine

57. What is considered as the easily digestable source of protein?
Soyabean

58. When the Vice-President acts as President he gets the emoluments of which post?
President

59. Which port especially developed for exporting iron ore to Japan?
Paradeep

60. Which site, where Ashokan pillars exist, has the bull capital?
Rampurva

61. Total internal reflection of light is possible when light enters from which thing?
Water to air

62. The book ‘Worshipping False Gods’s is written by which person?
Arun Shourie

63. When was the Rolling plan designed?
1978-83

64. Which is a global biodiversity hotspot in India?
Western Ghats

65. During which reign was Kalidasa lived?
Chandragupta II

66. In the human body, cowper’s glands form a part of which system?
Reproductive system

67. The resolution for removing the Vice-President of India can be moved in which sabha?
Rajya Sabha alone

68. Which transition metal is in liquid state?
Mercury

69. Which type of forest exhibits highest bio-diversity?
Tropical rain forest

70. Which Rashtrakuta ruler established a victory pillar in Rameshwaram?
Krishna III

71. Who directed the famous T.V. serial ‘Tandoori Nights’?
Saeed Jaffrey

72. The UNESCO declared 2011 as which International Year?
International Year of Chemistry

73. In absence of ribosome in cell which function does not takes place?
Protein synthesis

74. Where are Tapovan and Vishnugarh Hydroelectric Projects located?
Uttarakhand

75. Who was the last ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate?
Nasir-ud-din-Mahmud

76. To whom does the Public Accounts Committee submit its report?
The Speaker of the Lok Sabha

77. If a bar magnet is cut length wise into 3 parts, what will the total number of poles be?
6

78. Why does the Issue Department of the RBI maintain a against printing of note?
Minimum Reserve System

79. With which river is the Omkareshwar Project associated?
Narmada

80. The ruler which was not invited to join the confederacy to fight against Vijaynagar in the battle of Talikota?
Berar

81. The United Nations declared 2010 as which International Year?
Rapprochemont of Cultures

82. Which tissue take part in healing the wounds?
Epithelium tissue

83. Which is the highest and final judicial tribunal in respect of the Constitution of India?
Supreme Court

84. What is the state the main activity associated with the fold mountain?
Earthquakes

85. Who was the Afghan ruler of India whose administrative system was emulated by the British?
Sher Shah

86. Temporary hardness of water is due to the presence of which thing?
Magnesium bicarbonate

87. Regatta is associated with which sports event?
Rowing

88. Rupee was devalued by what percent in July 1991?
20 Percent

89. What is the term as the drainage pattern developed on folded sedimentary rocks?
Trellis

90. Whose tomb is ‘Biwi Ka Maqbara’?
Aurangzeb’s wife

91. Which energy do not have the problem of pollution?
Sun

92. When was the Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu?
1969

93. What is a suitable unit for expressing electric field strength?
N/C

94. Rotation of the earth causes deflection of wind by which force?
Coriolis force

95. Who organised a Maratha confederacy against the English leading to the Third Anglo Maratha War?
The Peshwa

96. Which woman has become the highest individual scorer in an innings in Tests?
Kiran Baloch

97. What is the name of the person that controls a football match?
An umpire

98. Which air pollutant affect the nervous system of man?
Lead

99. Which is the chief characteristics of wet and dry tropics?
Constant heating

100. By whom was Shuddhi movement (conversion of non-Hindus to Hinduism) started?
Swami Dayanand Saraswati

101. Which Union Territory attained statehood in February, 1987?
Goa

102. Which oxyacid of halogen has maximum acidic nature?
HClO4

103. From when was the Zero Base Budgeting in India first experimented?
April, 1987

104. What is most important reason for dwindling forest resources today?
Over felling

105. “The best and bravest of the military leader of the rebels”- about whom was this said by Sir Hugh Rose?
Rani of Jhansi

106. Who is the leading wicket taker in the history of Test cricket?
Shane Warne

107. The greatest threat to organisms and biodiversity in which process?
Process of habitat loss

108. Which Article of the Constitution of India makes a specific mention of Village Panchayats?
Article 40

109. How much of earth surface is covered by the forests?
30 percent

110. Who was the first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress?
Sarojini Naidu

111. The unidirectional property of a pn-junction is useful for its use as which thing?
Rectifier

112. Who has been awarded the Prem Bhatia Award for the year 2012?
P.R. Ramesh

113. Who was the chairman of 13th Finance Commission?
Vijay Kelkar

114. The Himalyas are approximately how many kilometer broad?
150 to 400

115. During India’s Freedom Struggle, which led to the first ‘All India Hartal’?
Protest against Rowlatt Act

116. Which animals have a diet mainly consisting of bamboo?
Red pandas

117. Which Amendment of the Constitution of India deals with the issue of strengthening of the Panchayati Raj?
73rd

118. Thermal decomposition of alkanes is known as which name?
Cracking

119. How many islands of India are located in the Bay of Bengal?
204

120. In ancient India, at where was the earliest capital of Magadha kingdom?
Rajgir

121. Amarya Sen, the NRI Nobel laureate got the honour for which work?
Poverty and famines

122. Where did India made her debut in Olympic football?
London in 1948

123. Which plant is used for green manuring in India?
Sunhemp

124. Which city is known as the ‘Manchester of South India’?
Coimbatore

125. The Government of India has decided to declare river as ‘National River’?
Ganga

126. What does the Preamble of our Constitution contain?
The spirit of the Constitution

127. Which energy of the electron at absolute zero is called?
Fermi energy

128. What is an essential attribute of inflation?
Increase in prices

129. Which city is known for silk wearing industry?
Kanchepuram

130. Which Rajputa king defeated Muhammad Ghori for the first time?
Prithviraj III

131. Where were first Olympic Games held?
776 B.C.

132. What is the characteristic odour of garlic?
A sulphur compound

133. The source of India’s sovereignty lies in which thing?
Preamble to the Constitution

134. What can be the maximum duration of totality for a solar eclipse?
7 minutes 40 seconds

135. Which region of India was ruled by Sultan Zainul Abidin?
Kashmir

136. Which is the vitamin that is most readily manufactured in our bodies?
Vitamin D

137. The celebrated novel ‘The Godfather’ was authored by which author?
Mario Puzo

138. What is the best means of saving during inflation?
Money

139. What is the total surface area of earth?
510 million sq km

140. Sirajuddaulah was defeated by Lord Clive in which battle?
Plassey

141. In human body, which are the leg bones?
Humerus and Femur

142. When the Vice-President acts as President he gets the emoluments of which post?
President

143. Which of the following is good nuclear fuel?
Plutonium-239

144. All the watches of a country are set according to which time?
Standard time of the country

145. Near the banks of which river excavations have brought to light that Indus Valley Civilization percolated to far south?
Krishna

146. Which book is entitled as ‘Bible of Communism’?
Das Kapital

147. Who is popularly known as ‘Nightingale of India’?
Sarojini Naidu

148. In metabolism, how enzymes act?
As catalyst

149. If it is 4 P.M. on Monday at 150°W, what will be the time at 150°E?
12 Noon on Tuesday

150.The term nishka, which meant an ornament in the Vedic period, was used in latertirnes, what did it denote?
A coin

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